5th Nov – Rig Packed Down Ready to Leave

22nd Oct – Well Intervention Equipment with Scaffolding

7th Oct – Fracking Company Cuadrilla On Site?

Cuadrilla Resources is an all out fracking company. Witnesses at the site reported over-hearing workers on the phone to Cuadrilla, the work over rig is owned by Cuadrilla, and a worker in Cuadrilla branded work wear was on site. Rathlin Energy deny that Cuadrilla workers have been at West Newton.

6th Oct – Climbing Rig Without Harness

One of the 20 main impacts of extreme energy is dangerous working conditions, and we’ve seen many breaches of H&S on Rathlin Energy’s sites, such as not wearing hard hats within the compound.

This is example shows a worker who appears to be climbing the rig without a harness.

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25th Sep – Piles of Small Dead Mammals

Hundreds of rodents suddenly died in the drainage ditches around West Newton well site, when certain work was being carried out resulting in sustained, loud, and heavy rumbling. They may have been attracted or confused by the vibrations from the site. The Environment Agency also recorded the presence of oil in the perimeter ditch.

14th Sep – Gas Flaring

People present when flaring occurred, even for short periods, reported sore throats and headaches.

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Flare stack by day

16th Aug – Standard Operating Procedure?

Nothing to see here. Move along.

14/15th Aug 2014 – Mini-frac Incident

Emergency well intervention equipment mobilised to site after an emergency well shutdown. Read more on the Incidents page here.